SENIOR NEWS SUPERVISOR Supervision, training and direction of news personnel;implementation of programming objectives; assisting in

development of future programs; and, delivery of news to CKHL High Level.

Qualifications: At least 2 years experience on-air. Digital editing desks i.e. INES systems. Digital editing (MTS etc.)Assets: Strong writing skills. People-oriented. Knowledge of various computer systems, including Windows-basedprograms. Strong organizational skills. Ability to work unsupervised. Able to delegate responsibilities.

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Thursday, April 6, 2000 Volume 7, No. 43 Page One of Four

TV/FILM: The CRTC has hundreds of Digital TVchannel applications; at least 100 for thecategory one channels (guaranteed a dial spot)and another 200 for category 2 channels. Public

hearings begin in mid-August, and the Commission will likelyhand out the licenses before Christmas. Canada’s cablebroadcasters are - even now - grappling with the question ofhow they’ll attract enough business from any new channels tomake a profit. Canadian Cable Television AssociationPresident Janet Yale says there’s a “huge disparity” betweenthe availability of digital cable and consumer acceptance of thenew medium. She says digital cable lines pass about sixmillion Canadian homes but only 300,000 of those homeshave a digital box (used to convert the broadcast to a usableform). Consumers and broadcasters are at opposite ends:Consumers won’t likely buy digital boxes unless there areguarantees of good programming - and broadcasters say theyworry about how they’ll pay their bills, given the fragmentationafter as many as 200 digital channels hit the cable line... BCEand CTV have signed a 10-year deal to distribute CTVentertainment, sports and news content to BCE's Sympaticoand other Internet sites. The deal is a condition of BCE's$2.33-billion takeover offer for CTV, which was to haveexpired yesterday (Wednesday)... BCE Inc. says the CRTC’sconditions that CTV dispose of Sportsnet is okay with it; thatthe demand won’t stand in the way of BCE's offer to purchaseCTV. BCE also announced that the CRTC has approved itsVoting Trust Agreement and

proposed Trustee - Brian Aune - who will take up thatresponsibility on completion of the transaction. The Trusteewill enable continued operations of CTV pending usualregulatory consideration, and will sit on CTV's Board ofDirectors.. Montreal TV production firm Motion International(formerly Coscient Inc.) says it welcomes a takeover by TVAGroup in a deal worth up to $125 million. The offer will comethrough a holding company jointly owned by TVA and CapitalCommunications, a subsidiary of Caisse de depot etplacement du Quebec, Canada's largest pension fund. Thetakeover is expected to close in early May, pending regulatoryand shareholder approvals. As part of the transaction, TVA willcombine its affiliate TVA International into Motion'sinternational operations, creating the second-largestproduction house in Canada and a major new player in globalcontent production. The new company will be named TVAInternational... An arbitrator has ruled in favour of firedCalgary 7 (CICT-TV) Sportscaster Mike Lownsbrough. The18-year employee was let go late last year, reportedly afterplaying a practical joke on another staffer... CanadaNewsWire (CNW) and the Global Television Network havea deal for CNW to provide real-time content to theGlobalTV.com Web site... Andrea Thompson (Det. JillKirkendall) will leave ABC's NYPD Blue at the end of theseason to become a TV Anchor. She’ll do a three-month tryoutthis summer at CBS' Albuquerque affiliate.

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REVOLVING DOOR: Mark Rubinstein, ex Sr. VP atCHUMCity and City Interactive, is new ManagingDirector at Yahoo! Canada, based in Toronto...Pamela Wallin has switched from CBC to CTV,

agreeing to host and produce shows for the network andspecialty Talk TV (scheded for a fall launch). Wallin began hercareer with CTV in 1981 as a host of Canada AM... NigelFuller, GSM at The NewRO (CHRO-TV) Ottawa and TheNewPL (CFPL-TV) London, has been appointed VP/GM atThe NewRO. He’ll continue as GSM at the station. Fullersucceeds John Krug who’s retiring at the end of June...Expect big changes at CBC's The National, along with the restof CBC’s news operations. First up is the move of TheNational's Exec Producer Kelly Crichton to The HistoryProject, a series about Canada's past... Mike Religa has been

appointed Music Director at KISS 92 (CISS-FM) Toronto...CHFI-FM/680 News (CFTR)/KISS92 (CISS-FM) Torontohave Greg Stevens as new Image Director. He’ll also workwith Exec VP Sandy Sanderson on other Rogers Radioproperties... Maureen Holloway, who’s been with The Mix(CKFM-FM) Toronto for 15 years, has signed with the RockRadio Network. She begins in June...

SIGN-OFFS: Long-time CHUM Toronto VP, Sales WesArmstrong, who retired a few years back but remainedon the CHUM Board, has succumbed to cancer at 76,Very early on in his career, Armstrong was a board

Operator for Jack Kent Cooke. Most of those who still work atCHUM, or who ever worked there, all have a “legendary” WesArmstrong story... Just short of his 85th birthday, Malcolm D.Neill - a former Chairman of the Canadian Association ofBroadcasters (1951-53) and CAB President (1958-60) - haspassed away in Burlington. Neill succeeded his father atCFNB Fredericton (1945) and had also served as Presidentof the Atlantic Association of Broadcasters... Karen LynnLakey, known by many Western Canadian broadcasters forher work in Calgary television, CJAY Calgary, CBS Records,CFOX Vancouver, and other stops along the way, has died inNanaimo... Veteran Western Canada broadcaster andcolumnist Eric Bishop died Saturday in Calgary of braincancer at 74. Bishop retired from CFAC Calgary in 1988.

LOOKING: Media Studies at Mohawk College inHamilton is looking for a full time faculty person... EZROCK (CFMG-FM) Edmonton is looking for both afull-time Promotions Coordinator and a seasonal

Summer Cruiser staffer... KX96FM (CJKX-FM) Ajax ishunting for a full-time Reporter/Weekend Anchor... CKORPenticton is looking for a Reporter/Desker... CHBC-TVKelowna needs an Assignment Editor... ROBTV Toronto hasopenings for an Operations Manager and a Media Manager...

RADIO: The Montreal Expos reached an 11th-hourFrench-language deal with CKAC Montreal Monday,but the club is still without an English-language radiobroadcaster, and the chances of a station stepping up

to the plate are zip. On the TV side, no deal for the Expos.Owner Jeffrey Loria has been adamant that Montreal stationspay comparable rights fees to those paid to clubs in US cities.But broadcasters argue that the Expos' ratings in recent yearsdon't justify the price... Former CJCB Sydney Talker DaveWilson has won a provincial by-election in Cape Breton East.Liberal Wilson defeated the NDP candidate in Tuesday’s poll...CHED Edmonton played some of the muddier sections ofsecret recordings used as evidence in the trial of WieboLudwig. Crown prosecutor George Combe wants aninvestigation into how the audio was publicly released but thejudge hasn’t acted on it yet. Justice Sterling Sanderman saysas long as an accused's right to a fair trial isn’t compromised,the court must balance that with the public's right to know...The fourth annual Multimedia PC and Internet Audio Studysuggests a doubling of people listening to radio via the Internetover a single year.

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The listening habits of 1,375 multimedia owners duringJanuary, 2000 were compared to the same period a year ago.In 1999, 33% listened to online radio. This year, the numberjumped to 63% (most listening at work). Three out of 10home-computer owners tuned-in there. The study found thatmales are in the majority but that females are quickly catchingup... Last Friday, the day before April 1, the stations in theEdmonton Radio Group (K-ROCK [CIRK-FM], Mix 96[CKRA], and CFCW) got together for one simulcast morningshow, featuring all three morning teams. Wes Montgomery,Terry Evans and BJ Wilson did a three-hour Feast of Foolscharity broadcast for the Canadian Cancer Society andraised $2,400... CD106.7FM (CHCD-FM) Simcoe got someneighbouring radio stations’ collective shorts in a knot afterweeks of on-air promotion of the fact that it was “taking overanother station”. At least two competitors are known to havebeen rolling tape on Saturday morning to learn if it was in facttheir station that was being swallowed. Instead, at 10 a.m.April 1, morning show Host Tim O'Neil revealed thatCD106.7FM had taken over a local gas station and was givingaway gasoline – $10 to the first 100 vehicles... ConneXusCorporation says *CD, its interactive consumer service,allows consumers to immediately identify and buy the musicthat's playing on their radio by calling 650-588-SONG or bygoing online to www.starcd.com. Stations in San Jose and SanFrancisco have just begun implementing the new service...

GENERAL: Liberty Media has completed acquisitionof 19.9% of Corus Entertainment. The Corus shareswere purchased from a subsidiary of CanWest GlobalCommunications which received the shares as part

of the restructuring of WIC Western InternationalCommunications... Meantime, Corus Entertainment,CanWest Global Communications and ShawCommunications say they have completed the division ofWIC and its other businesses. The businesses requiring CRTCapprovals have been placed in trust (the hearing is scheduledfor April 25)... Broadcast News GM/VP Wayne Waldroff willbe the recipient of the Radio-Television News Directors

Association President's Award for 2000. Waldroff is cited for“commitment to our industry . . . above and beyond thedemands of his ‘day’ job. From running the BN newsroom torunning the BN show, he has been a leader in guiding usthrough the technology changes of the 80s and 90s, helpingnews directors, especially those in private radio, deal withcomputerized newsrooms, digital audio and now, the Internet.”The award will be presented at the RTNDA’s annual nationalconvention at Vancouver June 15-17... RCMP raided theHalifax bureau of Broadcast News and The Canadian Press,and seized the tapes of interviews with convicted killer MichaelMcGray. The former Nova Scotia man has implicated himselfin 15 slayings across the continent. Since giving mediainterviews, McGray has refused to speak to investigators.... Inthe Videotron-Rogers-Quebecor-Caisse de depot conflict,Rogers says it’ll pull the plug on its friendly merger if thecourts don’t soon allow Videotron shareholders to vote on it. Itwas on Tuesday that Groupe Videotron's board formallyrejected Quebecor Inc.'s rival bid for the company (an offerbacked by the Caisse). The merger would create a singlecable company dominating Ontario and Quebec. The casegoes to court April 18, where the Caisse will ask for apermanent injunction to prevent Videotron shareholders fromvoting in favour of the Rogers deal. For its part, Rogers saysit will give Videotron shareholders until April 20 to vote on the$5.6-billion all-stock merger, and until April 26 to consummatethe deal. After that, all bets are off... Quebecor Inc. shareshave plunged by about 20% since the move on GroupeVideotron just over a week ago. Investors seem worriedabout where Quebecor is going after its hasty bid forVideotron. There are concerns over Quebecor's strategy anduncertainty over a lack of details. At week’s end (March 31),Quebecor shares which traded at over $50 the week beforeafter peaking at $61.50 last month closed at $39.70 on theToronto Stock Exchange...

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Canada’s dominant western phone company – BCT.TelusCommunications – has bought 70% of QuébecTel Group,thus challenging Bell Canada on its own turf. The price tagwas $585-million. The move unshackles QuébecTel fromregulatory restrictions on expansion within Quebec and opensup a major front in the telecommunications war for rival BCEInc.'s business customers. BCT.Telus now will have accessto a network and business customers in Bell Canada's coremarket between Quebec City and Montreal... The CanadianCable Television Association’s (CCTA) annual conventionhas just wrapped-up in Toronto. The show, April 2-4, focussedon consumer empowerment, digital communicationstechnology, and Canadian content for broadcasting andInternet applications. John Tory, both the President of RogersCable and Chair of the CCTA/CABLEXPO convention, said“The cable industry is going full speed into the new digitalworld, building a full suite of competitive consumer services”...In the wake of the TimeWarner/America Online deal thatcreated the world's biggest multi-media company, the CCTAwants the federal government to change its rules to encouragemore communications companies to join forces... Also fromthe CCTA annual convention, association President JanetYale said CCTA wants the government to stimulate the newmedia development.

She says technology is changing the role of the governmentbecause regulators can no longer control what contentconsumers can access and “in this environment, businessneeds to take risks, but we also need government to removebarriers to integration, if Canada is to be part of this neweconomy”... And, the new 2000-2001 CCTA Board of Directorsinclude: Chair Jim Shaw (Shaw Communications);Secretary Claude Chagnon (Le Groupe Vidéotron);Treasurer Randy Moffat (Videon CableSystems); DirectorsLouis Audet (Cogeco Cable), Guy-R. Beauchamp(Vidéotron Communications), John Bragg (EastLink CableSystems), James Forsyth (Campbell River TVAssociation), Donald Hamel (Cablevision du Nord deQuéébec), Dean MacDonald (Cable Atlantic), WarrenRitchie (Norcom Telecommunications), Ted Rogers(Rogers Communications), Ken Stein (ShawCommunications), John Tory (Rogers Cable); and, Ex-Officio Fred Wagman (Past-Chair) (Cable Regina) and JanetYale (President/CEO) (CCTA)...

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TV/FILM: The numbers are in: The CRTCreceived 452 applications for new digitalservices. Of those, 446 are pay and specialtyservices; two are pay-per-view; and four are

video-on-demand... Saint John-based iMagicTV andChumCity Interactive in Toronto say they will bring TV tothe PC, going beyond streaming media. ChumCityInteractive has authorized the trial airing of TVprogramming over iMagicTV's SoftTV platform to enableservice providers to offer interactive television (ITV) onsubscribers’ desktop PCs. The agreement is billboarded as“a launch pad to assess content viability over the Internetand to inaugurate a new era in entertainment that trulyblurs the line between TV and PC”... The National Postsays CBC TV execs are considering a plan to kill local andregional news broadcasts and, with them, the cutting of upto 500 jobs. Such a move would eliminate most localsupper-hour news shows and replace them with aToronto-based national news program. Exceptions to theplan would be the regional broadcast in St. John's (CBC'smost popular regional news show) and the regional showfrom Charlottetown... BCE’s takeover bid for CTVsucceeded, with 99% of CTV shares (52.9 million commonshares at $38.50 per) tendered under the $2-billion offer.BCE has extended its $38.50-a-share offer until April 17 toallow the holders of the untendered shares to sell them.Ivan Fecan says he’ll remain as President/CEO,conducting CTV business under an arm’s length trust, untilthe CRTC approves BCE’s purchase. No word yet on theintentions of other CTV brass although Fecan did say thatthe success of the BCE bid ensures “that the CTV familywill stay together.” This is the first time a telephonecompany in the Western world has acquired a mainstreamTV broadcaster. Meantime, CBC may become a key partin the sale of CTV Sportsnet. It wants to provide technicaland managerial resources, plus on-air talent. CBC has astrong ally in Fox Sports Net, which owns 20% ofSportsnet and probably has an option to increase its shareto 32%. Fox is apparently enthusiastic about CBC gettinginvolved because of the network's track record inproducing quality sports programming. RogersCommunications, which has apparently increased itsownership in Sportsnet to 40% and wants to grab amajority interest in the channel, has warmed to theprospect of the CBC’s involvement... CBC Television has

been named the hostbroadcaster for theEdmonton 2001 WorldChampionships inAthletics... CTV posted a$3.7-million loss in thesecond quarter, endedFeb. 29. That amounts to$0.06 a share andcompares with a net profitof $112,000 a yearearlier. CTV says the losswas because of higheri n t e r e s t c o s t s o nincreased debt levels forthe NetStar acquisition,together with the equityshare of the loss recordedby Sportsnet. For the six-month period, profittotalled $57.9 million, upfrom $42.7 million in thefirst six months of fiscal1999... The Marketer'sMarketplace says its first hour-long live Web seminar (lastWednesday) attracted more than 500 participants –advertisers, agencies, consultants, and creativeprofessionals. During the ‘seminar’, author Jack Myerspredicted that online advertising will surpass both cableand broadcast network advertising before the year 2005.Gerard Kunkel, Senior VP for WorldGateCommunication, added that consumer behavior andacceptance for tying TV and the Internet together into anInteractive TV solution is already in operation in over 40markets worldwide. “The 30-second spot,” he said, “willbecome the interactive session. The 30-minute infomercialwill become the interactive shopping mall.” Myers andKunkel say of consumers in households with onlineaccess, 80% want higher speed access, 53% would pay towatch TV on demand, 42% want to download TV andmovies over the Internet, 39% want to access the Internetvia TV, 71% of marketing executives want detailedresearch on the impact of their brand on consumers, 61%of marketing executives think that interactive TV will bevery important to marketers within 48 months. Based on in-

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field trials, he said, “the channels (based on click-throughrates per eyeball) with the highest rate of interactivity todayare the cable channels, including ESPN, The WeatherChannel, MTV, SciFi Channel, Court TV andNickelodeon”... Alliance Atlantis Communications willteam with Germany's TV-Loonland in $110-million deal toproduce nine children's and animation TV series over thenext three years. The partnership includes production,distribution, merchandising and Internet commitments.Other programs from Alliance Atlantis' children's library willbe licensed to TV-Loonland (TVL) for an additional $20million.

GENERAL: At the National Association ofBroadcasters convention in Las Vegas this week,delegates heard that the road to digital TV remainspothole-filled and that there’s little agreement on

who’s responsible for fixing them. The manufacturers saybroadcasters must create more HDTV content to spursales, while broadcasters say the manufacturers mustdevelop better TVs and make them compatible with cableboxes. Still, US regulators are anxious for progress. TheFCC is pressuring set makers and cablecos to iron outdisputes over how to make digital TV sets compatible withcable boxes. Both are promising cable-ready digital TVsets will be available before the end of 2001. In Canada,a commercial digital signal is expected by late 2001 orearly 2002. CDTV Inc., a public-private task force, isdeliberately following the US by 18 months to two years,letting them work out the bugs first... Still at the NAB,broadcasters went on the offensive against critics whopredict the death of traditional radio and TV byInternet-age attackers. Instead, says NAB President/CEOEddie Fitz, “broadcasting stands before a door that isopening ... not one that is closing.” He said the so-called“dot-commandoes”' and even “dot-communists” who, somefear, would send traditional TV and radio the way of thedinosaurs are exaggerated: “The future for broadcasting isquite promising; radio is currently very hot.” Viacom Inc.Chairman/CEO Sumner Redstone backs Fitz, saying thatnot only would traditional broadcasters survive, but theywould be the ones to benefit from the convergence of theInternet and media companies because they have thecontent. “Technology paves the way, but make no mistake,content is the fuel that drives this industry forward.Broadcasting makes money! When did business stopbeing about making money? Far from sounding the deathknell of traditional media, (the broadband revolution)actually means that broadcasters and cable networks withestablished brand strength will reap disproportionate gains. . . How ironic is it that an 80-year-old technology (radio)would play such a key role in helping to launch thedot-com gold rush? Radio is reaping enormous rewards asyoung companies realize how cost-effective it is -- in 100%of homes, 100% of cars, 100% of workplaces”... British

media group Pearson PLC plans to merge its TVoperations with the European broadcaster CLT-UFA. Thecombined company would have the broadest reach of anyTV or radio broadcaster in Europe and annual revenue ofabout $US3.8 billion and be worth an estimated $US19.2billion. CLT-UFA is majority-owned by Germany'sBertelsmann AG and Group Bruxelles Lambert SA ofBelgium. Under the deal, Pearson and Bertelsmann wouldmerge their broadcasting and TV production operationsinto Audiofina, a Luxembourg-based holding companythat also has a stake in CLT-UFA. Paul Desmarais'Montreal-based Power Corp. has landed a $1-billion stakein the new European broadcasting powerhouse... Cancomsold its 24% stake in ROBtv to WIC Television ($8.5-million), which then passed it on to CanWest Global. Thatmakes Thomson Corp. and CanWest GlobalCommunications 50-50 partners in Report on BusinessTelevision. The sale by Cancom complies with a CRTCdirective when it approved the merger of Cancom and StarChoice last year... Rogers Communications has beenworking to start negotiations with Quebecor, its rival in a$5.6-billion bid to take over Groupe Videotron, Quebec'sbiggest cable company. But Rogers, Canada's largestcableco, has yet to make any headway with the Caisse deDepot. It is the Caisse, a formidable Videotronshareholder, that is backing Quebecor's unofficial bid. TheCaisse, Quebec's provincial pension fund manager and apowerful financial presence in Quebec, is using a 1995shareholders' agreement with Videotron to block theRogers-Videotron deal. The pressure is increasing, as anApril 18 court hearing looms, that could invalidate Rogers’bid. The Quebec Superior Court hearing is about atemporary injunction that blocked Rogers' friendly takeoverof Videotron. At first, Videotron officials were outwardlydismayed by the action but in the last few days VideotronCEO Claude Chagnon has seemingly changed his tune,issuing statements to the effect that he would considerother offers if the court blocks Rogers... New legislationabout to be passed in Saskatchewan will restrictinformation on how badly someone has been injured in anaccident and the person's identity. Naturally, the media willthen have new rules under the Health InformationProtection Act. When proclaimed, the act will dictate thatinformation on the status of an accident victim can only bemade public if the person or a family member allows it...Rogers Communications has raised its stake in CogecoInc. 17%, buying 900,000 subordinate voting shares. Inaddition, Rogers owns 12.7% of Cogeco Cable.

RADIO: The Radio Marketing Bureau and BBMhave announced that they will make permanenttheir up-until-now exploratory consumer purchasebehaviour data, conducted in Vancouver, Toronto

and Victoria. The new and ongoing countrywide study –called RTS Canada – will begin with the field work this fall.

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Results will be available in the spring of next year. RTSCanada promises to provide consumer purchasebehaviour data for a wide variety of goods and servicescategories integrated with media usage and lifestyleinformation. Information from the study will be provided atno charge to agencies and advertisers. Updates will bepublished every six months... The CRTC has approved thesale of six Blackburn Radio stations to Affinity RadioGroup. They are: CHYR FM Leamington, CKNX/CKNX-FM Wingham, and CHOK/CFGX-FM/CHKS-FM Sarnia...Peace River Broadcasting Corporation has won CRTCapproval for a new pop/rock FM’er at Lloydminster. PeaceRiver currently operates CKHL-FM High Valley andCKYL/CKKX-FM Peace River... CBC National RadioNews, Winnipeg, has won the 1999 Michener Award formeritorious public service journalism for its reporting on avote-splitting scheme in the 1995 Manitoba GeneralElection. The Michener-Deacon Fellowship was presentedto Catherine Cano, executive producer with Radio-CanadaTelevision, Montreal, providing $20,000 to support afour-month study leave.

REVOLVING DOOR: Effective May 1, StephenTapp becomes VP/GM at Citytv Toronto andCablePulse24. Tapp was promoted from his duties

as VP/GM at ChumCity International (developing aninternational export strategy for programming and stationformats)... CJOB Winnipeg morning Host Roger Curriehas resigned, effective May 12... Blair Daggett is nolonger GM of Newcap’s Western Newfoundland radioproperties. He may be reached at (709) 639-1776... BradEdwards, PD at Peace River Broadcasting(CKYL/CKKX-FM/CFKX-FM/CKHL-FM) leaves that postMay 12 and will take up new duties at Central IslandBroadcasting in Nanaimo as PD/Ops Mgr... 680News(CFTR) Toronto has appointed veteran business journalist

Ron Adams as its new Business Editor. Adams is knownfor his work on CBC... Nancy Smith’s Toronto-basedNextMedia has Diane Davy as its new President. Davy isin from her previous endeavours as President/Publisher ofGreey de Pencier Books and Publisher of OwlCommunications... Premiere Radio Networks says ArtBell will be replaced on overnights April 27 by Mike Siegel,a veteran talker based in Seattle... Naamua Delaney isleaving VTV Vancouver to join WFXT Boston asEntertainment Reporter. Delaney was part of VTV’soriginal on-air news team when the station signed on in1997.

SIGN-OFFS: Robert Hoyt, who had been a producerand interviewer on CBC-TV’s This Hour Has SevenDays, and who later moved to PBS in Washington

and National Public Radio, has died in Phoenix at 76...James Gordon Parr, a former head of TVOntario, hasdied in Toronto at 72. CBC Radio listeners knew him asThe Mad Metallurgist... Ian Robertson, former GM/GSM atCKBI AM/TV Prince Albert, passed away April 8 after abrief illness.

LOOKING: CKAY Duncan, about to flip to FM,seeks a Morning Show Host. See the ad on Page1... SUN-FM (CFGP) Grande Prairie is looking fora News person... Conestoga College’s School of

Communication and Media in Kitchener is looking forStation Manager... CJOB Winnipeg is looking for amorning host.

SUPPLYLINES: Sony of Canada says it has outfittedthe first full Sony high-definition post-productionfacility in Canada: Stonehenge in Toronto.Stonehenge launches its new 10,000-square-foot

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EDITOR’S NOTE: I am absolutely thrilled toannounce that Broadcast Dialogue magazineSenior Writer Daphne Lavers was honoured at the

Eighth Annual Andersen Consulting BusinessJournalism Awards, recognizing excellence in Canadianbusiness journalism. Lavers won first Honourable Mentionin the Trade Publication category (second to the overallwinning entry [of over 300 submissions]) for herpresentation of DAB Launch in the July/August 1999edition of Broadcast Dialogue. The story may be found atwww.broadcastdialogue.com. Broadcast Dialogue isindeed fortunate to have a person of Daphne Lavers'capabilities and charm. She brings a marvelous capacityto make her feature articles “sing” and, as a result, to makethem enjoyable and readable for the entire broadcastcommunity.

REVOLVING DOOR: Some big changes at GlobalTelevision: Gerry Noble becomes newPresident/CEO of Global Communications

Limited May 1, and Kevin Shea becomes President of theGlobal Television Network, effective immediately. JimSward, who held the post about to be taken by Noble, willbe leaving the company when his contract expires August31. Sward has held the job since 1993... Michael Martinis new President of Comlink Systems, Oshawa, havingbeen promoted from VP, Broadcast/Telecom/UtilityGroups... Ron Hutchinson, ex of Urban OutdoorTransAds, is Joe Mulvihill’s successor as President ofIntegrated Media Sales in Toronto... Three of theOkanagan Skeena old guard have been dismissed fromTelemedia (West). Gone are Sharon Taylor and TimMacLean from the Terrace office, and Dari Gilham fromthe Vancouver office... Ira Basen, Exec Producer at CBCRadio's This morning for the past three years, is leavingthe show this summer. Judy McAlpine, a veteran CBCcurrent affairs programmer, succeeds him. Herappointment is effective immediately... Mike Sinel ismoving from his Promotion Director’s job at CJFM (MIX96) Montreal to Global Quebec, as PromotionsManager... At TVB (Television Bureau), David MacLeodhas been promoted to Manager, Marketing &Communications, and Jillian Ernst to Research Analyst... Calgary 7 (CICT-TV Calgary) anchor Chris Gailus is movingto WFAA-TV Dallas to co-anchor the ABC affiliate's morning and noon programs. Gailus' wife, Jane Carrigan, anchorsthe 11 PM newscast on rival CFCN-TV. She will eventually join Gailus in Dallas, but so far doesn’t have a US workpermit... The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has appointed of Mark Oldfield, Manager of News andInformation Programming at MCTV Sudbury, to its Ontario Regional Council.

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LOOKING: CHUM is looking for talent at its newLondon FM station. See the ad on Page 2... SUN-FM/The Bullet Kelowna is looking for a hockey

play-by-play announcer/sportscaster... CTV News inToronto is looking for a couple of experienced researchersfor work in July and August.

GENERAL: Nielsen Media Research has signed anagreement in principle with ReplayTV, Inc. todevelop, test and implement software systems for

use in providing audience measurement for ReplayTV'spersonal video recorders and related services. For thosewho already participate in People Meter Samples, the newdeal will enable Nielsen’s software metering technology toreside as part of the ReplayTV service and to measure thenew time-shifting, digital technology... The RCMP has laidcharges alleging that Cinar Corp. received nearly $8-million in provincial tax credits for productions that werewritten by American scriptwriters. Documents filed Friday atthe Quebec Court in Montreal state that Cinar usednumerous American writers for four of its productions datingback to 1992 but falsely attributed the scripts to Canadianwriters so as to get provincial tax credits as well as TelefilmCanada funding... Monday’s Globe & Mail opined that theCRTC’s power to dictate behaviour is evaporating. It saidthat when TV signals are digitalized it will mean a meltingaway of the limits on the number of channels a carrier canoffer. As the limit fades, so will the ability of theCommission to control which channels viewers can easilysee and what those channels may offer. Some questionsposed: Will networks survive because of their economies ofscale and capacity to produce expensive programs thatviewers will want to watch? Will advertisers continue to seecommercial-driven TV as a good use of their promotionaldollars? If they drift away as the audience fragments, willwe think in future not of channels but of individual programsoffered by any number of suppliers, with an entirely newcalculation of who pays when for what? Will we still watchthem on TV?... Rogers Communications and Groupe

Videotron saw the Caisse de depot in court Tuesday, thepowerful pension fund manager fighting to block a friendly$5.6 billion takeover of Videotron by Rogers. The Caisseowns 19% - the Chagnon family own 81% of Videotron'smultiple voting stock. But the court extended the injunctionagainst the merger by three months, with Videotronapproval - further confusing the takeover battle. Someinvestors interpreted the legal move as a negative forRogers... Cogeco Cable earnings flopped – falling by 63%to $2.9 million -- in the second quarter ended Feb. 29.That’s nine cents a share, from $7.7 million, or 26 cents.However, revenues rose by 13% to $91 million... Secondquarter results from Corus Entertainment show theProgramming division (YTV, Treehouse TV and Corus'80% interest in CMT [Country Music Television] as well asCorus' 80% interest in DMX Residential increasedrevenues by 15% to $22.5 million from $19.4 million lastyear. On a year to date basis, Programming revenuesincreased 16% to $51.8 million. Radio revenues increasedby 13% to $13.2 million from $11.7 million last year. Year todate, Radio revenues increased 14% to $29.6 million.Overall, national ad revenues continued to be softthroughout the second quarter. Corus' Digital ADventurebusiness, providing local cable advertising, showedrevenues for the second quarter $4.0 million, up 20% fromthe same period last year. Year to date, revenues

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increased 19% to $7.8 million... Cable Regina is nowAccess Communications, in Regina, Estevan, Weyburnand Yorkton. The new name reflects the cableco purchasesmade in those centres outside Regina... The Torontochapter of Canadian Women in Communications ispresenting a panel discussion on the impact of the Internetand e-commerce on traditional media next Wednesday,April 26, at the Crowne Plaza Toronto Centre. Moderatedby CBC Midday’s Tina Srebotnjak, speakers include: IsmeBennie (Bravo! & Space), Liz Janik (Media Mix Inc.),Paul Jones (McLeans), and Wendy Muller (Double ClickCanada). For info, contact CWC at 416/363-1880... NextFriday, April 28, the B.C.I.T. (British Columbia Institute ofTechnology) stages its Reunion 2000. For info, call JanWadsworth at 604/432-8863.

RADIO: The Radio-Television News DirectorsAssociation reports most Canadian radio stations(65%) put more news on the air last year than in

1998, an average of about 110 minutes daily - Mondaythrough Friday... Last week we told you of CJOB WinnipegMorning Host Roger Currie’s imminent departure (May12). Turns out he and his family are moving to the Lake ofthe Woods region of Northwestern Ontario and that Curriehas already signed to do morning news at CJRL Kenora...BC Finance Minister Paul Ramsey was in court Mondaysuing CKPG Prince George for libel, upset over commentsmade by Host Ben Meisner during a recall campaignagainst Ramsey in his riding of Prince George-North... Ascholarship has been established in memory of the lateCFRB Toronto Commentator, Bob Hesketh, and will beawarded to a student in the Communications Program atToronto's Seneca College... The Montreal Expos, shutout from striking a play-by-play radio broadcast deal, havedecided to take their English-market “broadcasts” to theWorld Wide Web. Marc Griffin, Expos' director ofbroadcasts and Web site editor, says, “We're hoping tomake it interactive, at least during the home games.” Planscall for Dave Van Horne to provide play by play at

www.montrealexpos.com, with broadcast partner JoeCannon handling pregame and postgame shows. CJADMontreal Sports Director Ted Blackman says talks withthe Expos are at a stalemate. Scuttlebutt suggests CJADdoesn’t want to pay for rights, but instead suggested a planthat would have the baseball team foot the entire bill for airtime, broadcasters salaries and technical support --approximately $650,000. Further, that CJAD had adagreements in principle that would have seen $200,000funnelled back to the club... Hockey playoffs, and radio istaking full advantage. The MIX (CKFM-FM) Toronto’smorning show, for example, is following an NHL tradition –nobody, including co-host Donna Saker, will shave; atleast, not until the Maple Leafs are eliminated.

TV/FILM: A new survey shows TV viewers areincreasingly dissatisfied with local TVnewscasts. Insite Media Research found

reveal that viewer dissatisfaction is so strong that it ismaking a serious impact on audience behavior, causing22% of the adult population to completely avoid localevening news. Viewers cited story repetition,sensationalism, and misleading news promotions to be atthe core of their discontent. The survey, available atwww.tvsurveys.com, showed “The public's attitude . . . hasreached a crisis point. The trends are alarming - avoidanceof local news has doubled during the past ten years, andcomplaints among those still watching are at an all-timehigh, suggesting that even more audience erosion ispossible. Avoidance among younger viewers has climbedeven higher than the adult 22% mark, topping 40%.” Insiteis a broadcast industry research and consulting firm basedin Malibu and Dallas... CJNT-TV Montreal, the multilingualcommercial TV service, filed for bankruptcy after CWShareholdings Inc. - an affiliate of CanWest GlobalCommunications - said it had failed to reach anagreement with co-shareholder, Placements St-MathieuInc. Since early 1998, WIC and its affiliates have been thesole funders of ongoing operations, up to approximately $4

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million. Also in 1998, WIC began initiating efforts to developan alternative programming format for CJNT-TV that wouldguarantee its viability. Those efforts were apparentlyblocked by disagreements and on-going litigation amongvarious shareholders. In the interim, CanWest is exploringways in which it can support the Trustee's efforts to keepCJNT-TV on the air... Russia and the United States areplanning to launch the first space-based TV studio.Attached to the International Space Station, the studio willbe no bigger than a bus and will broadcast programs overits own channels rather than repeat signals from Earth.Launching is scheduled for 2002. Completion of the stationitself is set for November, 2004... Vancouver-basedMainframe Entertainment has signed an agreement withSONY Pictures Entertainment subsidiary AdelaideProductions to produce up to 40 episodes of its new CGanimated half-hour TV series Heavy Gear. Productionbegins immediately... Not just another cyber-babe,Anonova has green hair, big eyes, slightly jerkymovements and a vaguely American accent, and she saysshe’s the face of the future. Her developers hope she's agold mine. Ananova is the world's first cyber-anchor. Shewill deliver customized news over the Web and willeventually be accessible through cell phones. Clickwww.ananova.com for a look-see...

SUPPLYLINES: First to market with HDTV in Canadais the satellite sector. No broadcaster has yetannounced or launched. That was one of the

emerging trends reviewed at an Interactive DigitalTelevision session at Thomson Consumer ElectronicsCanada. While the feds adopted the A53 DTV standardand allocated frequency some time ago, there has still beenno response to the DTV Task Force. By comparison, 122

US TV stations are broadcasting in digital and reachingover 62% of that market. Bell ExpressVu started satellitebroadcasts in HD last October and plans a second HDchannel by this fall... The Order of the Iron Test Pattern,an organization formed to recognize “technical survivors” inthe TV industry, has announced its 1999 winners. They are:Crusty Engineer Award - Brigadier John H. Battison, PE,for being the oldest engineer (85) still earning a living in theTV industry and having done so for the longest time (55years). Battison, among other endeavours, built the first TVstation in Calgary; The Iron Desk Award - BrigadierJoseph Barath for keeping the same job as a TV engineerat the Johnson Space Center Television Systems for over34 years while being employed successively by 5 differentorganizations; The Rusty Doc Award - Dr. Byron St. Clair,for sticking to low power transmitters for 43 years; and, TheRust Collector Award - Brigadier Chuck Pharis, forcollecting 70 ancient, broadcast television cameras,repairing, operating and storing them in his personalmuseum. Created just prior to the 1979 NAB conventionthe Order of the Iron Test Pattern has filled a real need fortelevision's technical slaves – recognition for theircontributions. The first annual meeting during NAB 1980honored the longest sufferers of the lot and started atradition that was scheduled to last 5 years, or forever,whichever came first. For some reason, this is the 20thanniversary of the first NAB meeting and it is presentlysponsored by Itelco-USA, Inc.

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GENERAL: CBC President Robert Rabinovitch is setto announce a makeover, returning the corporation toits roots as a public-service broadcaster. Look for

less English TV advertising, more home-grown public affairsand cultural programming, and embracement of the Internet.First step is expected to be fewer spots on network newsprogramming. Also look for commercializing CBC buildings,rentals of land-based transmission towers, and the droppingof local supper-time news shows. Rabinovitch says he won’task for any restoration of federal monies until he is operatinga more focused and effective CBC... Cogeco Cable hasacquired three cable systems, two in Quebec and one inOntario. With the addition of Lindsay CATV Systems,Câblodistribution G inc. and Télécââble Provincial inc.,Cogeco bumps subscribers by roughly 30,900 basic cablecustomers... Rogers Communications profit dropped 59%in the first quarter, to $19.27 million despite higher revenue.That amounts to five cents a share and compares with aprofit of $46.94 million or 23 cents a share a year earlier.Revenue rose 13.9% to $807.7 million... The Videotrondeal is apparently not dead yet. Quebecor’s CEO, PierreKarl Peladeau, says there’s still a chance for a negotiatedsettlement with Rogers Communications over the fate ofGroupe Videotron. There is the chance, Peladeau said, thata compromise might be reached before Videotron goes to aJune court date to dispute the Caisse de depot etplacement du Quebec claim that it has the right to veto a$5.6 billion stock merger bid proposed by Rogers. TheCaisse supports a $5.9 billion cash-and-share proposal byQuebecor... SaskTel has acquired 29.9% of Craig WirelessInternational (wireless broadcast TV and high-speedInternet). The subsidiary of Craig Broadcast Systemsoperates SkyCable, a wireless broadband carrier inManitoba and Palm Springs, California... The WesternAssociation of Broadcast Engineers, which will join theCanadian Association of Broadcasters at this year’sannual convention in Calgary (Nov. 12-14), has issued aformal Call for Papers. WABE 2000 will feature separateTelevision and Radio Papers sessions. Should you, orsomeone you know, be interested in presenting a TV paper,contact Wayne Watson at 403/284-7079. If a radio paper,contact John Bruins at 403/264-6798.

TV/FILM: Tuesday, the CRTC began hearings in Vancouver into the deal reached last year between CanWestGlobal and Shaw Communications to split up WIC. CanWest is proposing to own WIC's nine conventionalTV stations and other assets while Shaw and its Corus Entertainment arm want WIC's 12 radio stations

along with stakes in specialty TV channels and satellite operations. Arguments made against the deal include CTV

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Television’s and Friends of Canadian Broadcastingwho say CanWest could end up with too much muscle inkey markets, particularly in Ontario. Friends say if the dealis approved unconditionally, it would contravene rules ofone broadcaster per market. CanWest wants to keepBCTV (CHAN-TV) Vancouver and CHEK-TV Victoria. Itwould sell its Global Vancouver station. In Ontario itproposes to keep ONtv (CHCH-TV) Hamilton. In Quebec,it would shed CFCF-TV Montreal. CanWestPresident/CEO Leonard Asper told the hearing that hiscompany won’t use ONtv as a means to expand Global’saccess to Toronto. He said the company would treatHamilton as a market in its own right; that spots would notbe sold to customers hoping to reach Toronto viewers.Craig Broadcasting Systems is demanding CanWest beforced to sell CHCH if the overall purchase goes through.CTV wants CanWest to sell both ONtv and CHEK if thesale gets a green light. The hearings wrap up tomorrow(Friday), and the CRTC is expected make a decision bysummer... A Public Service Announcement on drinking anddriving – a tribute to A-Channel Edmonton's ErikaLinder, killed in a car accident (the driver has since beencharged with drunk driving) last summer – has won theAlberta Recording Industry Association's award forbest PSA. The don't-drink-and-drive PSA made by A-Channel was produced with Linder's parents' blessing... Asecond independent review of Canadian TV funding saysTelefilm Canada should get out of the business. Thereport, commissioned by the Canadian Television Fund,calls the current situation “inherently inefficient” andaccuses the federal agency of meddling in private-sectordecisions. Written by consultant David Silcox, the reportsays the Canadian TVFund should take over soleresponsibility for TV funding. Telefilm now administers a$107 million a year fund while the CTF runs its own $102.5million fund separately.

RADIO: The CRTC has approved CKRY-FMCalgary’s application for an FM repeater at Banff.It will operate at 93.3 MHz with 92 watts... The

winner of CHFI-FM Toronto’s $98,000 winter getawaycontest - Harrison Mercer - is a part-time techie at competing Q107 (CILQ-FM) Toronto. The winner’s picture can befound at CHFI’s Web site and wearing the station’s T-shirt. Seems he was told to change in advance of the pic beingsnapped because he came to pick up his prize dressed in Q107 Rock Wear... Variety 104.5/BLAZE 101.9 FM Cornwallhas launched a new Web site: seawayvalley.com. Station management says it shows confidence in web commerce...1410 CIGO Port Hawkesbury will shut down May 1, now a redundancy with the station’s successful flip to FM: 101.5FM The Hawk (April 3). Call letters remain CIGO.

OOPS: CJAD Montreal GM Rob Braide says an item here last week was in error. In fact, the Montreal Exposand CJAD have not reached an agreement for the station to broadcast games because, Braide explains, “Theycame to us and said ‘you sell all of the air time and give us 90% of the revenue’. And that came about a month

before the season began. Then they came back and said, ‘We’ll give you the rights for free. You keep the air time butpay for the production costs’. We didn’t want that download . . . a $400,000 loss.” CJAD and the Expos couldn’t cometo an agreement because the station couldn’t justify taking on the cost of the broadcasts, a sum always paid by teams.

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REVOLVING DOOR: Phyllis Platt, Exec. Dir. ofCBC-TV arts and entertainment programming, saysshe is leaving the network at week’s end. For the

past seven years, Platt has directed the development ofCBC movies, miniseries and drama series... BCE Inc.’sBoard of Directors has appointed Jean C. Monty asChairman of the Board. He remains CEO... Andrew Eddyis new VP, Affiliate Relations, for Corus Television. SeanLuxton is new Manager, Digital Services, at Corus. Eddyhad been YTV’s Director of Affiliate Relations and Luxtonwent to Corus from Alliance Atlantis... Larry Silver, whohad been filling in as Morning Host at Talk 640 (CFYI)Toronto since the departure of Michael Coren in January,has now been named the “official” successor... An odd itemin this week’s Revolving Door: A News Director to becomea policeman and a policeman to succeed him. KIXX 105(CJLB-FM) Thunder Bay ND John Haley leaves his jobtomorrow (Friday) to become an Ontario Provincial Policeconstable. Succeeding him in the News Reader/Co-Hostjob is Acting Sergeant Gary Cooper, retiring from the OPPat May’s end (after 36 years).

LOOKING: KIX 106/YL Country Peace River islooking for both a GSM and a PD. See their ad onPage 1... Life 100.3 Barrie is looking for a Music

Director. See the ad on Page 2... Variety 104.5 Cornwallis looking for a morning co-host and newscaster... CHOW-FM (Spirit 91.7) Welland is looking for on-air talent.

SIGN-OFFS: Tony Scapillati, 44, Executive Director ofthe Canadian Broadcasters Rights Agency andformer CAB legal counsel, died of a heart attack last

Thursday. The funeral was Monday in Ottawa... CJADMontreal afternoon host Mark Rennie has died at 28 aftera long illness. He came to the attention of the CJADNewsroom in 1990 during the Oka crisis when as ateenager he offered to cover some of it.

SUPPLYLINES: Miranda Technologies (Lachine) hassigned an agreement to license Nortel Networks’broadband video technology. The agreement will allow

Miranda access to Nortel’s broadband video technology,providing transition into the MPEG-2 and video transportmarkets.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Broadcast Dialogue Web site,particularly in the Directory section, has been out ofservice for a while. It’s now back up. It’s important to

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